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How The CDC's Blindspots Complicated The Fight Against COVID-19

How The CDC's Blindspots Complicated The Fight Against COVID-19

Update: 2021-06-30
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The CDC wants to be certain, so it typically waits for a critical mass of scientific evidence before making declarative statements. That takes time. Yet the communication to the public in this pandemic seemed to be worse than normal, and resulted in a huge loss of public trust. Over the past month, we spoke to nearly a dozen scientists who all agreed the CDC could have done better. But the root causes of the CDC’s shortcomings will be hard to fix.

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How The CDC's Blindspots Complicated The Fight Against COVID-19

How The CDC's Blindspots Complicated The Fight Against COVID-19

FiveThirtyEight, Anna Rothschild